Describes a three-week minicourse designed to help students think about projected changes in human life over the next twenty-five years. (DD)

Describes a high school elective course. (DD)

Describes an elective course which deals with literature on prisoners and prisons. (DD)

Describes a nine-week English elective course. (DD)

Discusses the problems of teaching French civilization abroad and outlines guidelines for a course in French civilization. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Describes a course on atomic collisions in solids operated jointly by the Universities of Salford and Sussex, England. Includes discussions of philosophy and aims, teaching and learning strategies, assessment methods, problems and rewards. (LS)

Describes how nursery nurses are educated and trained to meet a variety of needs. (Editor)

Treat and cure 12 handwriting diseases to give new life to an old subject. (Editor)

Techniques and experiences that would help students not only in finding their first job, but in all future career decisions, were packed into a three-credit-hour course. (Author)

Discusses the course content and teaching techniques of two one-quarter descriptive physics courses which have been particularly successful. Reports on large enrollments and positive reception by students and faculty. (MLH)

Described is a course in consumer education for elementary school pupils. Topics discussed are skills for young consumers, classroom activities, selected resources in elementary consumer education, and guidelines for evaluating consumer education media. (Author/DB)

Describes how the College of Education at the University of Kentucky is implementing Internet communications training for pre-service teachers and for teacher professional development programs. (RS)

Describes a seminar course for underprepared college students which focuses on the study of the hero's quest and solves many of the difficulties inherent in the remedial writing course previously taught. Aims to teach critical thinking, close critical reading, and critical and creative writing as necessary for making the journey of inquiry. (PA)

Describes a children's literature course for preservice teachers, team-taught by creative writing and education faculty, in which students do not simply read and discuss children's literature but also write it, and what they create is then critiqued not only by their peers but by fifth to eighth graders. Calls this approach "learning children's…

In 1996, Florida State University implemented a four-year undergraduate program in information studies. This article describes the development of the curriculum, which drew from bachelor's programs at the University of Pittsburgh, Drexel University, and Syracuse University. Includes an outline of the program syllabus, course descriptions, and a…